While America has seen many mass shootings in the past decades, the victims have rarely been so young.

Victims

Lanza shot 12 girls, eight boys and six women in Friday’s attack. One of the victims, Josephine Gay, had celebrated her seventh birthday on Tuesday. Another, Olivia Engel, was due to appear in the nativity play at St Rose of Lima Catholic Church.

“She was supposed to be an angel in the play. Now she’s an angel up in heaven,” Monsignor Robert Weiss said.

Teacher Vicki Leigh Soto, 27, saved her students’ lives by putting herself between the kids and the killer.